Measuring tape device

Claim 1

A MEASURING TAPE COMPRISING A PAIR OF A-SHAPED PLATES ARRANGED IN SIDE-BY-SIDE SPACED PARALLEL RELATION WITH THE APEX AND LEGS OF EACH PLATE REGISTERING WITH THE APEX AND LEGS OF THE OTHER PLATE DEFINING A TAPE CASE, A SPACER MOUNTED BETWEEN THE PLATES AT THE APEX AND AT EACH LEG, A FIRST HANDLE MOUNTED ON THE SPACER AT SAID APEX, A SPUR FIXED ON THE SPACER ON ONE LEG AND PROJECTING OUTWARDLY THEREFROM TO SUPPORT THE TAPE CASE, A CIRCULAR DISC OF A THICKNESS APPROXIMATELY THE WIDTH OF A MSEAURING TAPE TO BE WOUND THEREON, SAID DISC BEING ROTATABLY MOUNTED CENTRALLY OF SAID PLATES, SAID DISC HAVING A RECESS INCLUDING A WIDE MOUTH COMMUNICATING WITH A SHALLOW SLOT COMMUNICATING WITH A CIRCULAR OPENING THROUGH AN OUTER PERIPHERAL PORTION OF THE DISC, SAID RECESS ALSO INCLUDING AN OPEN SIDE SOCKET COMMUNICATING WITH SAID CIRCULAR OPENING, SAID POCKET BEING DEFINED IN PART BY A WALL COINCIDENT WITH ONE SIDE OF THE DISC, A PIN EXTENDING AXIALLY FROM SAID WALL TOWARD THE OPEN SIDE OF THE POCKET FOR RECEPTION WITHIN A SMALL EYE ON THE INNER END OF A MEASURING TAPE WHEREBY A MEASURING TAPE MAY BE ATTACHED TO SAID PIN WITH THE PIN PASSING THROUGH THE EYE OR A MEASURING TAPE HAVING AN ENLARGEMENT ON THE INNER END MAY BE MOUNTED WITH THE ENLARGEMENT IN THE CIRCULAR OPENING IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID SLOT THEREBY PROVIDING FOR SELECTIVE MOUNTING OF MEASURING TAPES, THE PORTION OF SAID RECESS DEFINING THE SHALLOW SLOT EFFECTIVELY MAINTAINING THE MEASURING TAPE SUBSTANTIALLY TANGENTIAL TO THE REEL PREVENTING WINDING THE TAPE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.